10 things I love about Portland OR

1. People are super friendly!

2. The tourists too!

3. Voodoo donuts! 

4. Food trucks

5. Meeting Gordy

6. An authentic appreciation for sunshine. ( I use to take it for granite)

7. granite, a word I learned when I lived in Houston. I digress.

7. No sales tax!

8. The Columbia River Gorge.

9. The way people connected whenever we spoke. 

10. They know how to make exceptionally hot and delicious coffee.

Feelings

All feelings are valid.

Therefore they should be acknowledged, end of story.

Instead we think about them and assign a value to them, rendering them valid or invalid.

We choose between a thought and a feeling. If they match:

 I feel happy + my thoughts are 'that's a good feeling' = no conflict

I feel sad + my thoughts are 'you shouldn't feel that way, that's not good = conflict.

I feel sad + that's okay = no conflict.

Best of all:

I feel sad. 

No excuses, apologies or explanation needed.

This incarnation of mine.

 

I use this blog to record my personal evolution.

I quite like the fact that it is viewed at least four times a week by me and perhaps one other.

I usually take a word, idea or sentence I am attracted to and write it down on a blank page.

Sometimes I use sparkly gel pens and draw curlycues as I wait for the inspiration to flow or the molecules to settle.

After I write the words I sit back and say, 'Talk amongst yourselves.'

I do my best to blog new insights and only those I get on a visceral level as this is my work on the planet.  I came for the experience. 

Anything else you want in intellectual/legal/ technical language can be found elsewhere.

Talk is cheap, Google is amazing, College is overrated.

Personal insightful experiences is what this incarnation is all about.

The Good Cause

Doing what feels good to me is the main focus of my current life. It is my blueprint.

I have dawdled with things that was asked of me but that did not feel good to me.

It is fascinating to watch this play out in my life now.

Most of what I am asked or invited to do benefits others. It is always preempted as ‘a good cause’. 

I have nothing against Good Cause except one tiny little thing - is this a Good Cause for me? Will I enjoy it? Will it be fun? Will it ring my bells? If the answer is not a resounding yes, then I’m declining. 

It can only ever be a Good Cause if it is good for me period.

Fortunately there are enough people in the world who will find every single thing to be a Good Cause so there is plenty for everyone.

I am purposefully focusing this incarnation on the joy of being.